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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
23 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
SIR—Rumours are daily coming in from all quarters of a long and determined struggle. Stockmen have received their orders, and are making the necessary preparations to pen the campaign by a sudden descent on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By way of Melbourne we have received intelligence from Calcutta to the 13in January. As we had anticipated, the report of the Beg[?] surrender was unfounded. It is said that she was at the brad of a large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a moment when the peace of Europe hangs on the breath of one man—when a single angry phrase has been, sufficient to set armies in motion, and to agitate half the nations of the Continent, and when a single shot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Paris Monitour of May 17th, contains a Report from the Minister of Finance, respecting the sub cri[?] made towards the new French [?] The subscribed [?] is to be 247,000,000 francs. Of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following account of the progress of events in Italy is from the Home News:—The following order of the day was issued to the army of Italy by the Emperor Napoleon, on the 13th of May, after his arrival at Genoa:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War has been declared by France and Sardinia against Austria. England remains neutral. Wool is down. The Ministry have gained 25 Votes by the Elections…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following in the leading article in the Times 16th May:—The first letter of our correspondent who accompanies the Austrian Army gives a concise narrative of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the [?]nation at Birmingham Mr Bright said:— "I come now, gentlemen, to a question of the [?] importance. I hear to-day that there has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is a sound of thunder afar. Storm in the South that darkens the day, Storm of battle and thunder of war, Well, if it do not roll our way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The Emperor inspected to-day the positions of the fist and third cerped armes at Tortona and Ponte, and Vetona. "Yesterday the Austrians endeavoured to fortify and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The actual position of the war in Italy at this moment may be stated in a few words. The Austrians having advanced into Piedmont—invaded that country—upon four points, viz, by the way of Pavia, by the way of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Weekly Dispatch says:—We are stricken with judicial blindness if we cannot see as obviously as the simplest axiom in Euclid, that the enormous fleet and the gigantic coast fortifications of France…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The plains of Lombardy are what Louis Napoleon calls classic ground. That is, the Austrians and French have been having their quarrels out there for the last 300 or 400 years. But none of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There are 250,000 Austrians in Italy, of whom 120,000 are reckoned effective 25,000 men under Stadion stormed Casteggio, and occupied Montebello: here they encountered the French, and after a fight of five hours'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Count Schlnick, who succeeds count Gyulai [?] command of the Austrian army, is an officer whose name was familiar to Europe ten years ago, when the Hungarian war was raging; he played a part of some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our last we described the movements of the France-Sardinian and the Austrian armies up to the time when they confronted each other on Piedmontese ground, and had begun to make a few "demonstrations." At that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On this part of the subject, happily there is no necessity for enlarging. The country has had a providential opportunity of making its voice heard in this matter—and its unanimity has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Debats publishes an article of several columns on the subject of the Armstrong cannon, explaining its peculiar advantages, and the effect which the introduction of such tremendous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Florence correspondent of the Times, writing on the 28th May, says:—"Passing over the Pente Carrair, on my way from Santa Croce, I heard in the distance the drums and trumpets of a military…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] already we see attempt to enlist the feelings of the American…
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